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1892, pp. 10, 63), also J. P. Thomson (p. 34). The popula- 

 tion is divided politically into districts that form independent 

 federated communities, none of which have a high chief, nor, 

 as a rule, does any village acknowledge the undisputed 

 sway of any one man. 



The islands from South Cape to Teste Island may 

 conveniently be termed The Moresby Group. They are 

 inhabited by the same people as on the neighbouring 

 mainland and there is a great deal of intercommunication. 

 Macgillivray (i., p. 253) gives an interesting account of 

 Tassai (Brummer Island), and Baden Powell (p. 157) de- 

 scribes Samarai (Dinner Island); Finsch alludes (p. 277) 

 to finding tattooed people here and in Rogea, a custom 

 which he had not seen in Milne Bay or in the neighbour- 

 hood of the D'Entrecasteaux. The charnel houses and other 

 particulars of Rogea (Heath Island) and Sariba (Hayter 

 Island) are described by Macgregor (6., 5883, 1890, p. 

 305) ; on p. 302 he states the Tubutubu (Engineer Group) 

 people are great traders ; they procure their fine (fifty feet 

 long) sea-going canoes from Murua. Moresby (pp. 182, 

 188, 202), Bevan (p. 87), and others describe these islanders 

 as copper-coloured. Chauvin (" Memoire sur les Races de 

 l'Oceanie/'^rZ'. desA/iss. Scientif, 3™ ser., viii., p. 452) says: 

 "In the series [of sixteen skulls] from the Engineer Group 

 we can form two groups, especially if we pay regard to the 

 character of the face ". Hamy quotes (p. 511) Chauvin and 

 compares his results with those of Comrie (1877, p. 102, and 

 cj. Flower's Catalogue) ; in referring to the lighter coloured 

 individuals who have been noticed by all travellers, the latter 

 says the features and hair even in the lighter individuals 

 remain unaltered. The best account of Wari (Teste Island) 

 is by Finsch (1888, pp. 271-286) ; he describes the natives, 

 their tattooing, making and trading of pottery; the canoes 

 are imported from Murua, but are decorated with carving 

 here. 



The Louisiade Group consist of several large and 

 numerous small islands, which are really a continuation of 

 the axis chain of New Guinea. Macgillivray (i., pp. 1 68- 

 250) gives an account of the previous exploration of the 



